"Well, actually when the whole ‘Joe the Plumber’ thing happened years ago, I didn’t have a computer. I was a plumber. My tools were a whole lot of different things," he said. "I jumped on my parents’ computer. I started taking a look at this thing called Huffington Post, I had never heard of it before. And I started reading all of this bad stuff about me. I’m thinking man, these people don’t even know me, but here they’ve got it out in the media worldwide that I did A, B, and C."

He went on, "And I’m sitting here thinking, ‘Wow.’ It kind of crushed me, because my word is very important to me, it always has been. If I give it, people know it’s a done deal, there’s no question."

Later, he added that he knows that "God’s on my side." He continued, "And now I don’t let the media attacks, or what anybody says bother me, because I know it’s not true."

"His views are socialist," he continued. "He’s been hanging around with them for a very long time. It’s connecting the dots, it’s very simple. It’s not conspiracy theory, it’s not a bunch of hoopla, it’s real. And people have to call it out, and not be afraid of the media slapping them down. I won’t be."

He added that if elected he would install a webcam in his office and warned that he was not coming to Washington, DC "to make friends."